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cua

See also: Cua, CUA, của, cưa, cửa, cu-a, and cúa

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin cōda, early monophthongized variant of Latin cauda. Compare Occitan coa, French queue, Spanish cola.

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Noun

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cua f (plural cues)

  1. tail
  2. queue, (line)
    les italianes es van saltar la cua ― the Italian girls skipped the line
  3. ponytail (hairdo)

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Classical Nahuatl

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cua

  1. (transitive) To eat.

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Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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cua

  1. Alternative form of cova (“tail”)

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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(classifier con) cua • (𧍏, 𧍆, 姑, 𩸰)

  1. crab (a crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French courtiser or French cour.

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cua

  1. (Southern Vietnam, slang) to take out a girl
    Synonym: cưa

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Borrowed from French cours.

Noun

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cua

  1. (dated, informal) corner, curve, bend (point where a route changes sharply)
    Xe chạy qua cua. ― The car rounded a corner.
  2. (informal) period, term, round (period of time required to complete a task)
    theo học một cua ngoại ngữ ― to study a foreign language for a term
    Học mỗi cua ba tháng. ― Each term of study is three months.

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cua

  1. (informal) having a buzzcut, crewcut
    đầu húi cua ― a buzzcut haircut

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White Hmong

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Hmong *cu̯aᶜ (“to chew”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 嚼 (MC dzjak, “to chew”).[1]

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cua

  1. to chew hard, bite hard (on something)
    Tus aub cua pob txha. ― The dog chews on bone.
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-cæwH (“wind”).[2]

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cua (classifier: tw or nthwv (for gusts))

  1. the wind
    Cov cua tshuab ceev heev ― The wind blows very fast
    Cov cua twj cuab huv dua cua nruab nroog. ― The air in the suburbs is cleaner than the air in the city.
  2. (figuratively) the carrier of death, normally represented by the bamboo carriage made to carry the dead
    Nws lub tsev muaj cua. ― His home has death.
    Nws ua neeb xa cua. ― He performs a shaman ritual to send away death.
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References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 18.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 249; 273.
  2. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 273.
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